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HAND MOTIVE POWER.

No.27 ,665. PatentedMay L1883= UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. s. BURGUYN, or RICHMOND,

VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE- HAND MOTIVE POWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,665, dated May 1, 1883.

Application filed June a, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. S. BURG- UYN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Richmond, in the State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Hand Motive Power, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in hand-motor attachments for sewing and other machines; and the objects of my invention are, first, to do away with the use of the feet as a motive power applied to the treadle for running sewing or other machines by the substitution of hand-power therefor; and, second, to provide a lever that, acting directly on. the treadle by a vertical motion up and down, imparts motion to the machine.

The invention consists of an upright rod or lever attachable to the treadle of sewing or other machines, which, when so attached, by moving the same vertically up and down by the hand, works the treadle, instead of, asis now done, by the foot, and thereby imparts motion to the machine, not only more rapidly, but more easily, and with less injury to the health of female operators than is now done where the feet operate the treadle, orwhere the handpower acts on the pitman, as at E in Figure 1, or on the fly-wheel, as at F in Fig. l. I accomplish these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. l is a perspective view of a sewingmachine with the hand-motor treadle attachment A B 0 connected with the treadle and running vertically up through the table at D. The 0 ject in introducing the drawingof asewing-machine entire is to show the connection of my invention when attached ready for operating, and not to claim as part of mydevice any part of said drawing other than the attachment A B 0.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of my invention disconnected from the sewing-machine, that part; of the figure bounded by the waving line representing a corner of the treadle to which my attachment is connected, and is introduced for i motion is imparted of the feet to work illustration only. A B represent a rod or lever, either of metal or of wood, or of both materials,working, forconvenience, through a hole in the table at D in Fig. 1,and connected with the treadle by means of the attachment, Fig. 3, cast upon, screwed, or bolted to the treadle, and works on a stud or projection, G, in Fig. 3, so as to play freely thereon. a

Fig. 3 is a view of the attachment for connecting the rod or lever A B, Fig. 2, with the treadle, G is a stud or projection that works through a hole in A B, Fig. 2 at B, so as to play freely. Fig. 3 is united firmly to the treadle by being cast upon, bolted, orscrewed.

and of such a shape as to be fitto the same, ted upon any form of treadle that the manufacturer of the machine uses.

I am aware that prior to myinvention there have been devices patented for operating sewing-machines by hand only, as well as by hand in connection with the foot. I therefore do not claim such a motive power, broadly; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a sewing or other machine, the handmotor. attachment consisting of the combination of the treadle, the projecting stud thereon, and the vertical rod or handle loosely pivoted thereto and having a vertical play, whereby to the treadle, and the use the machine is obviated, substantially as set forth.

2. In a sewing or other machine, the hand motor attachment consisting of the combination of the treadle, the projectingstud thereon, the vertical rod or handle loosely pivoted thereto and projecting above the top of the table, whereby motion is imparted to the treadle, and the top of the table having the aperture D, serving as guide to the vertical. rod and through which the vertical rod plays, substantially. as set forth.

WM. H. s. BURGUYN."

Witnesses JOHN T. ARMS, S. GUTHRIE. 

